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In case you missed it because you fell asleep while watching the season two premiere of Castle. Not admitting that happened to me, of course, but obviously it’s been known to happen. Is it hot in here? It feels really hot. I’m just going. To. Step. Aside.

In case you missed it,  the debut of Fallon’s show last night. 

Still haven’t seen it, but I’ll probably catch it later tonight.  Anyone see it?

Not bad, but not exactly a great first impression.  It’s like the person at the party you find intriguing from across the room and then they open their mouth and you couldn’t believe you wanted to talk to them in the first place.

Mo 3/2: Robert DeNiro, Van Morrison
Tu 3/3: Tina Fey, Jon Bon Jovi, Santigold
We 3/4: Cameron Diaz, Billy Crudup
Th 3/5: Donald Trump, Serena Williams, Ludacris
Fr 3/6: Drew Barrymore, Mario Batali

(via latenightlineups)

Even though Conan O’Brien is down to his last two evenings as host of NBC’s Late Night franchise, he seems sad about his impending departure and a bit reticent on his new digs on the Tonight Show. 

Instead of trumpeting his June 1 start date, Conan is being forced to play nice on the NBC playground with Jay Leno, even when outside observers like former NBC entertainment chief Warren Littlefield go on record with statements like this:

“Sure, Conan is still getting the ‘Tonight Show,’ but who are we kidding? Call it what you will. But if NBC hasn’t done it yet, you know they are going to at some point be saying: ‘Late night begins at 10 o’clock.’”

Ouch.  You get the sense that Conan, who’s been patiently waiting to take over the sacred late night talk show for several years now, has to be feeling just a bit sandbagged by Jay Leno’s move to a 10 p.m. show. 

Still, Conan is an easily likeable talkshow host.  There’s an entire generation of people (35 and under) that have grown up with him as their prefered nightcap.  The same devoted audience that are excited to follow him to The Late Show, excited about Leno’s departure. 

“I’ve spent my fair share of time at 3 in the morning,” he tells the Times, “lying awake like Martin Sheen in the movie, staring at the ceiling fan, thinking about my trip up river — and we all know how that turned out.”

Which, if you read the entire article and extend the metaphor, Conan as Martin Sheen means that Jay Leno has to be crazy Marlon Brando

(Man that’s a clever headline.� I am so witty.)

The Death of Entertainment�or, as some call it, the date Jimmy Fallon takes the “Late Night” reigns from Conan O’Brien�will begin a bit earlier than expected.� Lorne Michaels decided to put Fallon on the Interwebs to “work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation as possible in performances on a website.”

Read: Try his damndest not to suck so terribly that no one watches “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”� I don’t think it’s possible.� I think Fallon is going to suck hard.� He’s worse than the Iraq War.

If this were any other host�or, indeed, anyone else in the entire fucking world�it’d be an interesting idea.� Michaels intends on posting Fallon’s abortions at 12:30AM every night to get the audience in the menstrual flow.� It affords the unfunny comedian a unique opportunity to generate a “voice” and begin compiling an audience.

However, I find it hard to believe anyone will boot up their PCs during Conan to watch Fallon giggle at his own jokes to the backdrop of a silent, resentful audience.